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Naatu Naatu wins Best Original Song & The Elephant Whispers wins Best Documentary at Oscars

India created history at the 95th Academy Awards. The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga, has won Best Documentary Short Subject at the 95th Academy Awards while Naatu Naatu from SS Rajamouli’s RRR has won the Academy Award 2023. It became the first song from any Indian production to win in the Best Song category.

In what will be known as the best year for Indian representation at the Academy Awards, Guneet Monga’s The Elephant Whisperers won Best Documentary Short and RRR song Naatu Naatu won Best Original Song.

Director Kartiki Gonsalves and producer Guneet Monga took the stage to accept the award where Kartiki gave an impassioned speech thanking the Academy for accepting their film.

The Naatu Naatu Composer Keeravani, along with lyricist Chandrabose, collected the award. Keeravani delivered his acceptance speech in the form of a re-written Carpenters song

“I grew up listening to The Carpenters and now here I am with the Oscars. There was only one wish on my mind, so was Rajamouli’s and our families’… ‘RRR’ has to win… Pride of every Indian… must put me on the top of the world,” Keeravani said in tune to The Carpenters’ 1970s song Top of the World.

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